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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard - How About New Mac Owners
Message-ID: <2050@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 22:03:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.2050
Posted: Mon Aug 17 22:03:13 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Aug-87 02:46:08 EDT
References: <36@mtunj.ATT.COM> <7594@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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In article <7594@think.UUCP> barmar@godot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <36@mtunj.ATT.COM> howard@mtunj.ATT.COM (H. Moskovitz) writes:
>>My question to them is this: I bought an SE a week before the show. Can I
>>still get HyperCard gratis or is that one week going to cost me $50 (+/- .50)?
>
>I've seen a couple of people ask this, and it seems kind of silly.
>Unless Apple decides to punt the $50 charge completely, they've got to
>have some cutoff date.  And if they do, then there will always be
>people who bought their machines the day before and will feel screwed.
>Well, that's life.
[...alot of cutoff date examples deleted...]

While I agree with you regarding the cutoff dates, you should remember that
in the past Apple has been pretty nice to people who missed a cutoff date.
The particular instance I'm refering to was back when the 512k "Fat" Mac
first came out.  I bought the Apple 128k->512k upgrad when it first came out
and retailed for $900.  A bit later, I (think about a month), Apple dropped
the price down to $700, but they offered everyone who bought the upgrade in
the interm period MacDraw and MacProject.  So there is some precedent for
Apple being nice to people who just missed a cutoff date.

Christopher Chow
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